Among the smartest and longest lived animals we can ever hope to interact with and it was willing to learn this stupid trick to amuse its human friend.
on one hand I hope the creep gets what’s coming to him (both for this and for all the people he’s defrauded over the years), but on the other hand, if i’m reading this correctly, your ask fails to mention how this whole saga and his rationale played out like an arrested development subplot
the CEO of a major game developer keeps a whole bunch of highly confidential documents about transactions involving a number of big-name publishers (including a class-action lawsuit his company is facing after misleading consumers and embezzling funds for years) on a single thumb drive
this thumb drive is also where he keeps his “barely-legal” porn
he accidentally leaves this thumb drive in a medieval-themed novelty restaurant
a random employee from said novelty restaurant stumbles across this thumb drive and rather than alerting the authorities or even attempting to exploit this extremely valuable business information for monetary gain, offers to return the thumb drive to gearbox in return for free games (poor bastard)
randy pitchford is out of town at the time, just has him send the thumb drive to the studio
randy pitchford’s former lawyer, in conflict with him over mutual claims of financial exploitation (randy arguing that the lawyer misused company money on fitness products and the lawyer arguing that randy’s side company pocketed millions of dollars meant for employee bonuses), attempts to intercept the thumb drive, at which point randy panics and attempts to get his employees to destroy it before he returns
the employees decide to look at what the hell is on this thumb drive, and discover their boss’s taste in porn
around this time, randy spends a bunch of time on some random podcast talking about how he was completely baffled by how this (probably underage) camgirl managed to fake squirting, as he has an interest in amateur stage magic
he then claims that the only reason he kept it on his Important Corporate Thumb Drive is because he’s so baffled by this act that he wants to put the girl on the cover of a magician magazine he owns (which is a sentence in itself)
this only comes to light because of small footnotes in an otherwise fairly dry lawsuit over the misplaced employee bonuses
once this comes to light, the former vice-president of gearbox makes a cryptic tweet saying, “It’s true.”
like, i can just hear ron howard narrating all of this
the day is literally not even over and i got something else to add:
The Mary Sue publishes an interview with Dwayne Johnson claiming that he thinks “snowflake culture” is “taking us backwards,” The Rock responds on Instagram claiming that the interview was completely fabricated.
psych majors should be required to kick it with a mentally ill person for at least 80 hours just to be reminded that we are human and not experiments
As both a psych major and a mentally ill person I cannot begin to tell you how many people I have met in my classes who make me concerned for the safety and health of mentally ill people everywhere, especially the young children who struggle.
My first psychology class was fucking wild. Put of around 35 of us only three (one being a close friend of mine) of us had any sort of mental illness. Intro Psych is mainly about brain development with only a small section at the end being about mental illness but Oh Fucking Boy did everyone’s weird ass stereotypes and fetishes jump out in the last chapter.
We were talking about schizophrenia and the one other girl with mental illness was a schizophrenic (it wasn’t known until this exact moment). We were talking about symptoms when someone just asked outloud, “Aren’t schizos like super likely to murder people though?”
I thought, okay, one guy still stuck in the fucking 80’s, whatever.
But Then A Bunch Of People Start Agreeing
And soon we were 20minutes into class and everyone had shared a case of a schizophrenic murdering, abusing, etc etc and They Saw Nothing Wrong With Thinking These Stereotypes Were A Standard
The prof finally stopped them and asked if anyone wanted to make one last statement and this poor girl just raises her hands and “I just thought you all should know that I’m schizophrenic and have never thought about murdering someone, nor have I ever hurt anyone apart from myself.”
And… no one apologized. They literally felt no guilt at all for bashing this girl.
The same exact thing happened when we talked about depression, anxiety, and ptsd.
“Ptsd is what soldiers get after war right?”
“Yeah sometimes, but anyone can suffer from it after a traumatic event”
“How would you know, are you the professor now?”
“No, but I have ptsd from a car crash that nearly killed me so…”
Like god damn I really fucking hate neurotypicals trying to satisfy some weird curiosity they have for “crazy” people or whatever it is like please stay like 3000ft away from anyone with a mental illness and never fucking talk to them dear god
